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Wake Me Up When September Ends
This page highlights what I've been doing recently. This is the September 2026 edition, eight months on from my first update in January. The latest one is always here.
College
This year I finished the spring and summer semesters at Laney, a community college in Oakland, and now I'm starting the fall. I'm taking Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms, and a history class, nothing too exciting.
What is exciting is that next spring will be my last semester before I transfer. I'm applying to four-year universities now, and my hope is UC Santa Cruz for a B.S. in Computer Science. It's also internship season, so I'm hoping to land a software engineering internship for next summer (if you know of any, please reach out!).
Life
I've gotten into coffee. I make espresso at home now and I'm hooked. I didn't understand the coffee cult until recently, but a warm espresso with the morning news on the balcony brings me so much joy. My local shop is Mother Tongue. They have great beans, and it's women-owned!
I also decided, for some reason, that I want to run a half marathon, so I've started training. Yay.
Media
Less time for games lately, and a rough run of books, but the music has been great.
Playing
- REPLACED (3/5): an absolutely gorgeous 2D platformer, perfect for the Steam Deck
- Alan Wake 2: saving it for spooky season
- Dead Space remake, if I have time
Reading
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (2/5) by Haruki Murakami
- Carmilla (2/5) by Sheridan Le Fanu
- A Court of Mist and Fury (2/5) by Sarah J. Maas
- next: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Listening
- WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA (5/5) by Slayyyter: pop that feels made for me. Seeing her live soon!
- Navy Blue (4/5) by Porch Light: alternative, with a new album, Hush, out later this month
Watching
- Widows Bay (5/5): comedy and horror. I can't recommend it enough
Last thing: I finally decided to put more effort into this site, so expect more frequent updates and changes. Come back soon.